'The truth of the matter is this country was founded on colonial violence — built on the backs of black slaves and the bodies of millions of slain Native peoples.'
have their own theories for what’s behind the violence, there’s also one crucial detail that’s regularly left out of the conversation: The fact that the United States has a long, bloody history of mass shootings. The truth of the matter is this country was founded on colonial violence — built on the backs of black slaves and the bodies of millions of slain Native peoples.
David Hogg, a survivor of the February 2018 Parkland mass shooting and one of the cofounders of March for Our Lives,this reality during a recent interview with MSNBC host Chris Hayes. “If we want to talk about mass shootings, we have to recognize the massive number of Indigenous mass shootings that were committed by the United States government,” he said.
The history of America is one of brutal mass slaughter, dating from the genocide of this land’s original peoples to the shootings we see in shopping malls and schools today.. On that day in 1864, U.S. Colonel John Chivington led around 700 soldiers to a village of Cheyenne under cover of night. Chivington ambushed them knowing that their chief, Black Kettle, had been invited to camp with his people at Sand Creek by a local fort commander, and that only a handful of warriors would be present.
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